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Wouter den Breejen 040966d95d This is a quote from http://www.johannes-bauer.com/xpdf/xpdf.php, any moral issues can be posted on the mailing list ;) "If you are the proud owner of a proprietary PDF-Creator like "Adobe Acrobat" you probably have noticed that it gives you the option to make the resulting PDF protected in a way that you cannot copy any text from it or that you cannot extract the pictures within. What a nice little feature. Now what this technically does is to set a flag in the PDF telling the reader program "Please don't let the mean user copy any content from me! ". However, the whole process relies on the reader progam (like "Adobe Acrobat Reader" or "xpdf", in our case) to obey the request of the PDF creator. Now at this point, xpdf really pissed me off. Because it really does obey the completely non-sensical request of the PDF creator. Probably because of some legal trouble which Adobe might give them if they did not obey it. But logically there is absolutely no reason to restrict the extraction of text of graphical images from a PDF file. Text I could read and type it in again. Pictures I could photograph off my PC screen. It's completely moronic. It's Adobe. Plus some people at my college think it's protecting their documents well. They seem to believe that content which is made for education should under no circumstances leak to the outside - somebody could maybe learn something! It would be a disaster! It is obvious they're morons. This patch just proves my point." 
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9765
2007-11-20 17:27:24 +00:00
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acrobat-reader * Purify Adobe Reader. 2007-03-04 23:46:11 +00:00
audio/sox sox, ffmpeg_svn expressions added 2007-10-22 00:51:40 +00:00
bluez-firmware * Reverted r6713, r6711, r4623, r3660, r2237. There rewrote fetchurl 2007-08-24 12:32:36 +00:00
bluez-utils * Reverted r6713, r6711, r4623, r3660, r2237. There rewrote fetchurl 2007-08-24 12:32:36 +00:00
cdrkit * Add cdrkit instead of cdrtools to the channel. 2007-10-19 14:16:43 +00:00
cdrtools * Add cdrkit instead of cdrtools to the channel. 2007-10-19 14:16:43 +00:00
d4x d4x (gui downloader for X) added 2007-09-11 19:27:25 +00:00
djvulibre * Rewrite all the SourceForge URLs to mirror://sourceforge/. 2007-08-27 13:01:33 +00:00
fetchmail svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9250 2007-09-04 13:26:33 +00:00
flite flite added and added mplayer derivation with esound and new configuration style support (still a mess but works) 2007-09-17 23:24:58 +00:00
gphoto2 gphoto2 upgraded to 2.4.0 2007-11-16 17:28:17 +00:00
gv * added gv (ghostscript-with-X is a dependency) 2007-08-14 14:09:58 +00:00
hello * Rewrite all URLs to GNU mirrors to mirror://gnu/. 2007-08-27 13:42:00 +00:00
i810 Mentioned installPhase. Ugly but working for setup.sh, the only way for new setup-*.sh 2007-10-26 05:45:20 +00:00
maxima Added maxima 2007-09-26 00:19:26 +00:00
mrxvt * Fixed some more URLs. 2007-09-11 11:15:37 +00:00
pinfo * Reverted r6713, r6711, r4623, r3660, r2237. There rewrote fetchurl 2007-08-24 12:32:36 +00:00
procmail added: 2007-09-03 12:10:57 +00:00
pstree added: 2007-09-03 12:10:57 +00:00
rxvt rxvt added 2007-09-05 08:25:23 +00:00
rxvt_unicode rxvt-unicode and jdk update provided by Tobias Hammerschmidt 2007-10-31 12:17:14 +00:00
sbagen sbagen (binaural sound generator) added 2007-09-12 10:56:56 +00:00
synergy implemented proposal by niksnut. 2007-11-13 01:26:54 +00:00
xchm * Rewrite all the SourceForge URLs to mirror://sourceforge/. 2007-08-27 13:01:33 +00:00
xmove Fixed xmove to work with unrecognizable hostnames as with localhost 2007-10-26 05:44:38 +00:00
xpdf This is a quote from http://www.johannes-bauer.com/xpdf/xpdf.php, any moral issues can be posted on the mailing list ;) "If you are the proud owner of a proprietary PDF-Creator like "Adobe Acrobat" you probably have noticed that it gives you the option to make the resulting PDF protected in a way that you cannot copy any text from it or that you cannot extract the pictures within. What a nice little feature. Now what this technically does is to set a flag in the PDF telling the reader program "Please don't let the mean user copy any content from me! ". However, the whole process relies on the reader progam (like "Adobe Acrobat Reader" or "xpdf", in our case) to obey the request of the PDF creator. Now at this point, xpdf really pissed me off. Because it really does obey the completely non-sensical request of the PDF creator. Probably because of some legal trouble which Adobe might give them if they did not obey it. But logically there is absolutely no reason to restrict the extraction of text of graphical images from a PDF file. Text I could read and type it in again. Pictures I could photograph off my PC screen. It's completely moronic. It's Adobe. Plus some people at my college think it's protecting their documents well. They seem to believe that content which is made for education should under no circumstances leak to the outside - somebody could maybe learn something! It would be a disaster! It is obvious they're morons. This patch just proves my point." 2007-11-20 17:27:24 +00:00
xterm * Reverted r6713, r6711, r4623, r3660, r2237. There rewrote fetchurl 2007-08-24 12:32:36 +00:00